San Francisco, Uncovered: The Castro

🌈 How did a gritty Gold Rush era Irish neighborhood become the epicenter of a movement that changed America?
Long before it was known worldwide as the Castro, this San Francisco neighborhood grew up around Irish immigrant families who settled there during the Gold Rush. In this lecture, Bonnie McGregor traces that early history and follows the neighborhood's transformation through one of its most pivotal chapters, the election of Harvey Milk as the first openly gay person elected to public office in California.
Bonnie explores the dark days that followed, from Milk's assassination to the…

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